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Global Optical Fiber and Cable Conference 2019:
a New Milestone in the Development of Global Optical Fiber Communication
November 18-20, the Global Optical Fiber and Cable Conference 2019 was held in Shanghai International Convention Center. Chu Junhao, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, infrared physicist and semiconductor physics and device expert; Lin Jintong, former president of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, vice president of China Institute of Communications; Yuan Ruiqing, leader of Jiangsu Telecommunications Administration Bureau; Wang Jianyi, leader of Zhejiang Federation of Industry and Commerce and president of the board of directors of Futong Group; Cui Genliang, vice president of Jiangsu Federation of Industry and Commerce and president of the board of directors of Hengtong Group; Yang Xi, vice president of Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce; He Guili, vice president of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Deputy Secretary General of China Internet Association; Gao Junshi, director of Division of Optical Communications in China Mobile Group Design Institute; and other academicians, experts and leaders attended the opening ceremony.
The conference is jointly sponsored by Asian-Pacific Optical Fiber & Cable Industry Association (APC) and Hengtong Group. The conference has been highly valued and concerned by more than 30 countries, nearly 300 scientific research institutes, industry institutions and leading enterprises. More than 600 senior executives from well-known telecom operators, academicians and experts, global optical communication industry leaders, and upstream and downstream enterprises of optical communication industry chain attended the meeting. Among them, leaders of the Ministry of industry and operators from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Brazil, Ecuador, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Croatia, Poland, South Africa, Ghana, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and other countries attended the meeting.
Yuan Ruiqing, leader of Jiangsu Telecommunications Administration Bureau, said that the optical fiber and cable industry has developed rapidly in the past 20 years. More than 3 billion core kilometers of optical fiber have been laid in the world. Optical fiber communication has created a huge information and communication technology (ICT) industry group. The overall level of China's optical fiber communication technology basically keeps pace with the international leading level, and has realized the transformation from "tracking" to "leading" in some fields. Facing the future, the market of optical fiber and cable has a huge development space and a long life cycle.
Wang Jianyi, leader of Zhejiang Federation of Industry and Commerce and president of the board of directors of Futong Group, said that the optical fiber and cable industry has a glorious history, inspirational experience and innovative spirit. Facing the future, the optical fiber and cable industry should be firm in confidence, maintain fixed strength, give priority to competitiveness, develop with high quality, strengthen exchanges and win-win cooperation.
Cui Genliang, vice president of Jiangsu Federation of Industry and Commerce and president of the board of directors of Hengtong Group, said in his opening speech that the global optical fiber and cable conference was of great significance in Shanghai. Shanghai is the birthplace of the scientist, Nobel Prize winner in physics and the father of optical fiber, which embodies the respect for the spirit of scientists. The technological breakthroughs of optical fiber communication and the upgrading of industrial development have brought about great changes in the global economy. Human beings will enter a new era of artificial intelligence, digital revolution and interconnection of all things, which will bring unprecedented development opportunities to the optical communication industry. Standing in a new era and starting point of the development of communication technology, Cui Genliang proposed that the industry should focus on the future, strengthen the joint coordination among industries, and build an industrial ecosystem of healthy development of the industry with a cooperative attitude of consultation, co construction and sharing And consciously take on the responsibility and mission of high-quality development.
Yang Xi said in her speech that Shanghai is the most dynamic and potential economic center in China, the pacesetter of China's reform and opening up, the pioneer of innovation and development, and the core and demonstration area of the Yangtze River Delta's ecological and green integration development. Yang Xi believes that the convening of this conference in Shanghai will certainly promote Shanghai to stand at the forefront of global development, advance the layout of 5G and other new generation communication technologies and industries, push Shanghai to take the lead in the development of big data, cloud computing, Internet of things and other fields, and promote the construction of Shanghai's smart city and smart society.
The theme of this conference is "5G Optical Fiber Links Intelligent Future". It will build a harmonious, healthy and joint innovation development platform for global optical communication enterprises. The conference gathered more than 30 professional keynote speeches, covering the discussion and sharing of new technologies and applications from optical fiber network, marine communication, optical communication to the whole industrial chain, discussing the changes of global market demand for optical fiber communication, innovation based on 5G technology, FTTx development, marine communication technology, future development trend of optical communication industry, and new technologies and applications from optical communication to the whole industrial chain. In this conference, attendees discussed and shared the opportunities and challenges faced by the industry, which promotes the deep integration of global optical communication technology, industry and industry, the development of big data, cloud computing and the Internet of everything, and the construction of smart city, digital country and intelligent society.
Among them, Chu Junhao, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lin Jintong, former president of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, vice president of China Institute of Communications, He Guili, vice president of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and leaders of the Ministry of industry of Indonesia respectively discussed "Sensors and intelligence age", "5G application to promote optical fiber development", "Optical fiber and cable: current research and development trend", "Present situation and future of FTTH market in Indonesia" delivered wonderful speeches, discussing and sharing the new technology and new market trend and future development direction in 5G era from the perspective of industry and professional height.
The world has become a global village due to the interconnection of optical fiber and cable. China's import of optical fiber in the past has grown into the country with the largest production capacity and market demand of optical fiber and cable in the world, accounting for more than 50% of the global share. The Chinese people, and the countries along the "Belt and Road", more and more widely share the feast of Internet services and information consumption. 5G, as a new generation of mobile communication technology, will bring new opportunities to the optical fiber communication industry, greatly improve the business capacity of mobile Internet, strongly support the vigorous development of digital economy, open a new era of Internet of all things, and build a new milestone in the development of global optical fiber communication.


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Greenville Police Hunt a Group of Women Suspects
CBS 8 News is covering Greenville where police are investigating a shoplifting case, that left two store clerks maced and eight to nine women suspects on the run.
Police say the women were shoplifting from the Burke's Outlet store Wednesday evening. The store manager called police, but as soon as the officer showed up, all of the women ditched the merchandise and left.
About 10 minutes after police left, officers say a couple of the suspects re-entered the store and sprayed two clerks with mace.
If you have a tip, call Greenville Police at (334) 382-7461.

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Mauritania officially called the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country bordering the Atlantic Ocean and Algeria, Mali and Senegal. Nouakchott, which is the capital of Mauritania is also the largest city. The most common economic activity among citizens is agriculture and livestock production.
Hides, Skin and Leather
More than half of 3.89 million people in Mauritania live from agriculture and livestock. With a large population engaged in animal husbandry, improvements in the leather industry will significantly increase the country’s export base. The strategic implementation of the project will help improve the leather value chain and teach herders and other players in the leather sector better methods of leather production.
Poultry trade in Mauritania is moving is on the rise. Mauritania’s demand for poultry is partly met by local production, but most chickens are imported, in the form of 5,000 tonnes of frozen chicken and around 40,000-day-old chicks imported into the country each year. Similarly, only a third of Mauritania’s annual consumption, about five million eggs, is produced locally. The poultry industry employs a large number of people in addition to the profitable by-products that the sector makes available to others, such as manure used as organic fertilizer or feathers used to make cleaning powders.
The government has put in place several workable strategies that will help this growing industry. This program will also assist the government in its efforts by providing the necessary training to poultry producers on best farming practices to achieve better poultry production. It will also help create new value chains that have not been formally explored. This will create more employment opportunities for rural farmers, especially women and youth.
Mauritania is one of the countries in the “gum belt”, local farmers are making great efforts to develop the production of gum Arabic and make it a very sustainable source of income. In addition, gum importers, environmental authorities and NGOs around the world have vested interest in considering the Gum Arabic belt as a sustainable source of income. Because of its great export potential, the development of a more sustainable approach in this industry will improve overall production in the value chain and create more employment opportunities in the sector.


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The city of Rockhampton will take centre stage with a festival for lovers of horsepower, show cars, burnouts and the wildest modified cars in the country when the Rare Spares Rockynats drives into town, Easter weekend 2021!
The 2021 event to be held 2-5 April, will showcase a weekend of high-octane automotive awesomeness commencing with the Dream Cruise through the streets of Rockhampton on Good Friday to kick off the long weekend event.
The team has been working hard behind the scenes on a revised event precinct to allow for more entrants, more spectators and a jam-packed program all under a COVID safe Event plan. Remaining event tickets go back on sale Tuesday 8 December just in time for Christmas gifting and locking in your Easter 2021 plans. With the amount of interest from both locals and nationally since the new dates were announced, we are expecting to sell-out.
This includes a limited release of new car and bike entrant tickets. Rockynats entries had actually sold out before the original event dates were postponed so the release of additional entries is exciting for enthusiasts all around Australia.
With over 900 car entrants retaining their spot for 2021, and a wait list for the additional entrant spots the interest is incredibly high and the competition is set to be fierce.
The event will take place over three precincts the CBD, Showgrounds and Northside recreation precinct, making it an easily accessible event for all motor enthusiasts and their families whether they live in Rockhampton or are visiting the region.
Rare Spares Rockynats is proudly presented by Rockhampton Regional Council in association with Summernats.
Tickets can be purchased at www.rockynats.com.au/tickets


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Illegal pesticides probe in Normandy
20 people in Manche, Normandy, have been questioned by police following an investigation into the trafficking of certain banned pesticides.
Among those quizzed are 14 maraîchers (fruit and vegetable market gardeners) who are accused of using phytosanitary products outlawed back in 2018.
In all, 20 people have been interviewed, some of them while in custody in Coutances. The majority of those implicated, said the public prosecutor’s office, admitted to the importation and use of prohibited products.
Nearly 80 tons of banned products were illegally imported from Spain and used in the Coutances area. Green news
Hunters help to preserve wetland
A hunting federation in Dordogne has stepped in to help preserve a part of the Beunes valley, a protected wetland.
The reserve, which is home to a wide range of birds, snakes, dragonflies and butterflies, is part of the Natura 2000 classification but has been drying up for the last 15 years.
So the federation bought up plots of land, and now works alongside farmers to keep water flowing into the area.
Marie Auclère, its communications officer, said: “The primary objective of hunters is to take care of nature. This valley is incredibly rich, and action had to be taken to preserve it.
Charitable kids’ clothing firm launches
An eco-responsible children’s clothing brand launched in Vienne, NouvelleAquitaine, raised €5,000 for animal protection charities in its first two weeks.
15% of the purchase price of all items sold by “Animal Kids” – the brainchild of Benoît Richet – goes to a charity of the customer’s choice (among the options are Save the Rhino, Panthera and Oceana).
The firm’s eco credentials extend to its source materials, with all clothes made of organic cotton from European farms.
“We tried to look for cotton production as close as possible to the French territory to limit transport,” M Richet told France Bleu. “We chose Greece and Portugal for our cotton and the clothes are produced locally.”
Hair today, hair tomorrow
Clients at Poitiers hairdressers Mon coiffeur exclusif can now donate their trimmed hair for the creation of wigs for cancer sufferers – provided that it is at least 25 cm long and is not coloured or bleached. All other hair can be recycled, too, into fertilizer or insulation, or to filter hydrocarbons or even to reinforce concrete. The salon also uses vegetable hair dyes to avoid using toxic products.
Mask recycling points in Tours
Authorities in Tours (prefecture of Indreet-Loire) are introducing 100 drop-off points – including town halls and schools – for the recycling of both cloth and disposables mask used by residents during the Covid pandemic.
“We noticed that there were too many masks in the street and that people who wanted to recycle them didn’t necessarily know what to do with them,” said Martin Cohen, the city’s deputy vice-president for waste collection.
Before being recycled, the collected masks will be quarantined and then decontaminated.
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Dialogue, cooperation and the implementation of innovative solutions based on the EU standards are the basic pillars on which the successful future of the CEFTA Parties rests. On the way to connecting individual markets into a Common Regional Market that will grow economically, the CEFTA Parties have partners and a road map, but they must reaffirm their commitment to this goal as soon as possible, it was concluded in Brussels.
CEFTA Week Conference 2022 gathered key regional actors and partners today at the event called “CEFTA: A stepping stone to the EU Single Market”. It was an opportunity to summarize what was achieved, but also to determine the directions of future joint action in 2023, when Montenegro will take over the Chairmanship of CEFTA from Moldova.
“We all know that regional cooperation is an essential element for the EU integration, and although geographically we are located in different regions, at the end of the day we strive to reach the common objective of greater economic integration. Thus, given the fact that the Republic of Moldova have recently obtained EU candidate status, like the majority of CEFTA members, the topic of discussions for this year’s annual conference is very welcome and pursues the common goal of all of us: ‘CEFTA: A stepping stone towards the EU single market'”, Dumitru Alaiba, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Moldova said today.
“The year 2022 brought new challenges, and the consequences of the economic and social crisis further emphasized the need for a systemically regulated market that will be the basis of progress and economic recovery of the entire CEFTA market“, said the director of the CEFTA Secretariat, Emir Djikic.
On margins of the Conference the customs administrations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Montenegro signed Memorandum of Understanding, further expending the Green Lanes with the European Union. Together with those already signed with Greece and Itlay in July and September this year, the initiative went a step furteher by creating the basis for facilitation trade and reduction of illegal trade with the EU. More specifically, the expansion of the CEFTA-TCT Green Lanes with Greece, and the establishment of Blue Lanes with Italy, with the support of RCC and European Commission, is expected to results in the smoothing of customs procedures and a better connection of the customs of the CEFTA and EU Members States. In this way, companies whose trucks pass procedures at border crossings have a direct benefit, which brings savings and better work control, and reduces congestion.
Four important decisions await adoption by the Joint Committee: Decision on facilitation of electronic commerce, Decision on inter-Party parcel delivery services, Decision on prevention of unjustified geo-blocking and Decision on the recognition of AEOS Programs. All of them stimulate business according to EU principles and encourage investments. This is not the end of the list. CEFTA is close to concluding the negotiations of another six additional agreements fulfilling the commitments the Western Balkans’ leaders made in 2020 – recognition of certificates, permits and licences targeting engineers, travel agencies, tour operators, producers and traders of honey.
“With this set of decisions, CEFTA continues to position itself as the foundation of the region’s economic integration. There is a road map, as well as ways to overcome challenges and find solutions that will work on the entire CEFTA market through gradual alignment with EU legislation and policies. This is also supported by data that regional trade increased through CEFTA between 74% and 127%, and that trade in goods and services are liberalized and further are being facilitated, in line with the EU policies. As reported in the RCC Balkan Business Barometer, only 22% businesses in the region think that economic situation improved in 2022, while 60% businesses report that they benefited from CEFTA. The trust the businesses have in us in addressing economic crisis consequences and creating new trade opportunities should be our key impuse to deliver the promises we made in Sofia Summit in 2020 and Tirana Summit this week”, added Djikic.
State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Development and Tourism of Montenegro, Armend Milla, pointed out that Montenegro will make additional efforts during its chairmanship to improve and strengthen regional trade cooperation between CEFTA parties and improve good neighborly relations.
“Given that no consensus was reached at the Joint Committee for the adoption of the aforementioned decisions, Montenegro, in its role as the future co-chair of CEFTA in 2023, called on all CEFTA parties to make additional efforts and through constructive dialogue to try to reach consensus and adopt the aforementioned Decisions”, Milla said.
Oliver Varhelyi, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, in the video message said that the EU stands with the region and is supporting it with economic and investment plans.
“That is why it is crucial to continue improving CEFTA cooperation. As costs decrease, we will make your markets more attractive to investors bringing investments and jobs too. Success is not possible without the commitment of CEFTA’s contracting parties at the technical and political levels. Regional economic integration is about overcoming political obstacles to foster economic opportunities. The Commission is ready to continue providing the necessary financial and technical support for your work. Through the implementation of the Common regional market Action plan, the work in CEFTA opens up the possibility of significant benefits in a diverse range of sectors – from agreement on geoblocking to expanding agricultural trade through the mutual recognition of veterinary certificates. It is essential for consumers and producers that opening markets becomes reality”, said Varhelyi.
Three panels dedicated to trade in goods, electronic commerce and objectives and opportunities in 2023 chairmanship were organized within the conference.


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, UK United Kingdom (PressExposure) December 16, 2007 -- Displaysense, the UKâs leading supplier of retail display products have had to dramatically treble stocks of many sale signs and promotional banners following a mad rush from retailers organising pre-Christmas sales to entice customers away from purchasing festive products online.
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Due to heavy price discounting and promotions over recent seasonal events such as Halloween and Bonfire night, and sporting occasions like the Rugby World Cup, retailers have managed to encourage customer to return to the high street according to a November 2007 BBC business report. This has been a much welcome boost for many retailers following the disappointing weather and floods in the summer which drastically impacted on retail sales.
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The retail sector in general could well be hit, with the recent increases in interest rates placing even greater pressure on household incomes and the usual pessimistic predictions that are already reaching the consumer press. So this recent trend by some retailers to start their sales early could well be a bold move to secure consumer spend ahead of any further doom & gloom stories reaching buyers ears.
There will always be people who prefer doing their shopping on the high street and having attractive retail displays with the added attraction of a sale will no doubt bring in further business. Traditionally, retailers do not start sales until Boxing Day but for retailers who are looking to get a head start on the competition, are already turning to companies such as Displaysense for retail sale signs [http://www.displaysense.co.uk/sale-signs-and-promotional-banners] to help them get the upper hand.


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Meanwhile Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma also has expressed his disappointment over the decision taken by Canada to suspend funding to the Commonwealth.
Issuing a statement Mr. Sharma said,
|Sri Lanka to open Coconut Park to promote tourism|
in the East Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan government with the dual goal of developing coconut production and promoting tourism in the East plans to open a model Coconut Park in Pasikuda in the Eastern Province,Sri Lanka.
The Pasikuda Model Coconut Park, to be opened adjoining to Pasikuda Bay soon, is a joint project by the Ministry of Coconut Development and Janatha Estate Development and Coconut Development Board.
The 238-acre park is being constructed in an area in the Eastern Province where thousands of tourists are attracted to the white sandy beaches of Pasikuda. A 25-acre area adjoining the coconut park will be developed as a tourist zone.
|Gems and Jewellery|
A high powered delegation of Pakistan's Gilgit - Baltistan Legislative Assembly members and officials led by Speaker Mr Wazir Baig, recently visited Sri Lanka on an exposure visit to study the Gems and Jewellery sector policy framework.
The visit was aimed to help Gilgit - Baltistan to devise policies to support efforts to improve the livelihoods of small-scale gemstone miners in the area. It will further improve the capacities to replicate the success stories of best practices adopted by Sri Lanka in gemstone mining, cutting and polishing.
Members of the delegation included Mr. Jamil Ahmed, Deputy Speaker, GB Legislative Assembly, Muhammad Naseer Khan, Minister for Mines and Minerals, Chief Secretary, Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, Muhammad Younus Dagha, Mr. Mutabiat Shah, Member, GB Legislative Assembly, as well as officials and representatives of Rupani Foundation and AKRSP.
The National Blood Transfusion Service Sri Lanka Gets Access to Critical Evidence-based Research Information
|The National Blood Transfusion Service Sri Lanka Gets|
Access to Critical Evidence-based Research Information
Dr. Anil Dissanayake, Director of the National Blood Transfusion Service Sri Lanka, commented, “Through our nationally coordinated system, we ensure the quality, safety and effectiveness of blood supply and related clinical, academic and research services in accordance with national requirements and WHO recommendations. Now the medical staff of NBTS can access the Transfusion Evidence Library to research the best practices, recommendations and alternatives in transfusion medicine and apply them to improve our services.”
|Oman Air HQ|
The lights went out across Oman Air’s network of 43 international destinations, as Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, joined millions of people around the world in marking Earth Hour.
Earth Hour is a campaign which was launched by WWF in 2007. It has since grown into a global movement which crowdsources actions from individuals, businesses, organisations and governments to generate environmental outcomes, encouraging innovation and creativity for the planet.
The airline’s headquarters in Muscat, Oman, took the lead for Oman Air and was joined by all its stations across the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa in confirming its commitment to protecting the environment. Only Oman Air’s essential services were exempt from taking part in the initiative.
|Sri Lanka Win ICC World T20 Trophy|
Wining the toss Sri Lankan captain Lasith Malinga elected to bowl first,India managed only 130-4 in their 20 overs.
The veteran left-hander knocked a 35-ball 52 not out in his last T20 match to guide the Sri Lankan chase of a modest 131-run target in 17.5 overs at Shere Bangla stadium.
|Celebrate Avurudhu with Hameedia’s|
Hameedia Sri Lanka’s leading menswear brand will make this Sinhala and Tamil New Year a memorable one as you become a sure winner with the Bakmahe Asiriya promotion, a special promotion running till April 25, 2015, for its thousands of customers all over Sri Lanka. Hameedia will also be introducing an exciting line of products in white celebrating the colour of the New Year.
Commenting on this festive season Fouzul Hameed, Managing Director, Hameedia said, ‘this time of year is very important to Sri Lanka as all communities come together to celebrate a common day with much happiness, peace and goodwill; we at Hameedia promote this unity among communities as we are a multi ethnic organisation. This time of year is also about gift giving, and we have a wide variety of clothing products and accessories, being the ideal place to find a gift for your loved ones. This year the colour for the Avurudhu is white and we have a full collection for you to choose from to ensure you dawn the New Year positively.”
|Samsung launches Galaxy S5 in Sri Lanka|
Samsung Electronics,Sri Lanka`s Leading Smart phone manufacturer introduced the fifth generation of Galaxy, S5 in the domestic market.Samsung said the price of Galaxy S5 is Rs.111490. It will be available in the market from April 11 on-wards.
"The GALAXY S5 is yet another great proof point of people-inspired innovation developed by Samsung.Designed to be both effortlessly smart and intuitively simple,the GALAXY S5 has been created to maximize consumer benefits by integrating superior hardware with enhanced smartphone usability and an iconic design,"said H.K Chang,Managing director,Samsung India Electronic Limited Sri Lanka branch.
The features include a 16-megapixel camera,fastest WiFi performance,LTE cat 4(150/50 Mbps) and Octa-core processor capable of operating all 8 cores at the same time,said a company release.
|Ampara Hospital clinches Best Hospital award 2014|
General Hospital of Ampara received Best Hospital in the World for 2014 by the Institute for Health and Productivity Management(IHPM), USA.Ampara General Hospital Director Dr. Lanka Jayasinghe represented Sri Lanka at the award ceremony held recently in Arizona State.


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ADOTAS – In the last year, online IM service Meebo has successfully transformed into a comprehensive social dashboard. The last few months have seen development upon development: after giving users the ability to check into their favorite websites in November and closing a Series D round of funding with $25 million, Meebo announced that its U.S. audience had reached 76.6 million, a 123% increase year over year.
Further shape-shifting appears to be on the horizon with the acquisition of Mindset Media, which specializes in psychographic audience measurement and ad targeting. Meebo had been partnering with the targeting firm for the last year.
Mindset goes beyond demographics to link consumers with advertisers using psychographic profiles and personality types based on browsing behavior collected through cookies. The New York-based company will operate as a business unit within Meebo and manage its own client base.


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Will Spotify’s HiFi service be available soon?
Back in March 2021, Spotify announced the release of their new HiFi service. Due to the continuous evolution of the technological music industry, Spotify had to postpone this launch and adjust their development. The most obvious question was addressed in a recent interview about this new service, “what happened to this service and when will it be released”. Have a look down below to find out.
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Spotify’s Co-president, Gustav Söderström, was invited to a recent interview with the US technology news website ‘The Verge’. During this interview, they covered a lot of aspects surrounding Spotify which the long-awaited question had been asked. “What happened to this premium HiFi tier that you all talked about in 2021?” Spotify announced a new service tier for premium users only, assuring the artist and users a higher sound quality when listening. The launch of this service was planned to be done in 2021, but due to the industry changing, they had to postpone it. Mentioning that the industry changed in many ways, they had to adapt to it in a way that makes sense for Spotify and the listeners.
The Verge: “Was it because it was cost-prohibitive from a margin perspective with the labels? Was that the reason?” There are many reasons why Spotify had to make the decision to delay the launch. Of course, money is a big factor that prevents or succeeds an idea from an actual launch especially when many big profit-seeking companies are included. Gustav mentioned that they also had to figure out what to do from a cost perspective way, but won’t give us more details on agreements with labels and artists.
As mentioned, Spotify created this service to offer a new high-quality music experience, but what can we expect? Spotify HiFi brings more clarity and depth to your music experience by implementing only lossless audio formats in the form of CD quality. Lossless files are less compressed and of a higher quality. In order to reach a broader audience, they implemented HiFi into Spotify Connect-enabled speakers. A new HiFi feature will be included where you can enable or disable the service. I would like to mention once again that this service will only be available for premium users.
Currently and as things stand, there are no actual details on the launch of this development. Click here to have a look at the interview.
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Al Murabaa Net – Toyota Highlander has been the best-selling mid-size crossover in America for six straight years, and the car just got major updates for 2023.
The most important update includes abandoning the 3.5-liter 6-cylinder engine in favor of a new 2.4-liter 4-cylinder turbocharged engine with 269 hp and 418 Nm of torque, an increase of 62 Nm in torque.
Toyota explained that the new engine will significantly reduce carbon emissions compared to the previous 6-cylinder engine, knowing that the car is also available with a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder hybrid engine, connected to two 246-horsepower electric motors.
The new Highlander got a 12.3-inch digital instrument panel, compared to a 7-inch screen previously, and the car also got a new 12.3-inch infotainment screen, with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay applications.
The features include a hands-free electric tailgate, new aesthetic touches in the cabin, and new 20-inch wheels for some categories. The new Toyota Highlander 2023 will arrive in the market later this year.
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HD HYUNDAI INFRACORE recently participated in CES 2020 in Las Vegas, U.S. for the very first time. During the trade fair, HD HYUNDAI INFRACORE introduced its lineup of digital-based products and technologies under the concept of “Fun” and “Tomorrow”. HD HYUNDAI INFRACORE also introduced “Concept-X”, an unmanned automated construction solution in the “Construction Tomorrow” section. Concept-X is a total solution in which accesses the terrain of worksites using 3D scanning with a drone, and then analyzes the data and plans the work automatically, and works with autonomous excavators and wheel loaders.
The booth (483㎡), located in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, featured a three-sided display that screened videos and delivered presentations showing the value of the future pursued by HD HYUNDAI INFRACORE using a three-dimensional effect.
CONEXPO, held every three years in Las Vegas, U.S., has established itself as one of the world's top three construction machinery exhibitions along with BAUMA in Germany and INTERMAT in France.
HD HYUNDAI INFRACORE participated in ConExpo, held from March 10-14, 2020, and unveiled the prototype of its new 1.7 ton mini electric excavator. HD HYUNDAI INFRACORE also exhibited ten of their latest items of equipment, including an excavator lineup comprising a 3.5-ton class mini excavator and an 80-ton class extra-large excavator (DX800LC-5), a wheel loader (DL580-5), and an articulated dump truck (DA45-5).
An engine exhibition hall was also prepared separately to introduce seven new engine products ranging from the DX22, an electronic engine for power generators, to vehicle engines, with the focus on announcing that HD HYUNDAI INFRACORE's small engine products (G2) meet the latest exhaust regulations and can be used for diverse purposes in various industries.
Dubbed the biggest exhibition on earth, BAUMA is a construction equipment exhibition held every three years.
At the event, HD Hyundai Infracore showcased a 1.7-ton mini electric excavator and an excavator with a hybrid engine, while also conducting a demonstration of the unmanned and automation solution 'Concept X' and the smart construction solution 'Xite Cloud'. We also presented an electric battery pack for the first time at the fair, as part of the effort to expand our engine business beyond internal combustion engines and into the realm of electrification solutions. By doing so, we hope to establish a foothold in the European market, where there is a high demand for eco-friendly equipment.
It is an international construction equipment exhibition held on the outskirts of Paris, France and is one of the three major construction equipment exhibitions in the world.
HD HYUNDAI INFRACORE participated in Intermat 2018 held in Nord Villepinte, Paris, France in April 2018 and introduced 50 products including a full lineup of construction equipment and engines. We also held commemorative events during the exhibition period including excavator auction and contribution, initial model exhibition, and cake cutting to celebrate the milestone of producing the 400,000th unit of HD HYUNDAI INFRACORE construction equipment.
First held in 1975, the Middle East Electricity Exhibition (MEE) is the world's largest electrical energy exhibition held annually in the Middle East.
HD Hyundai Infracore has participated in MEE every year, and in March 2020, we showcased seven of our engines in the lineup including our latest power generation engine named DX22.
The DX22 (22 liters) is a large-scale electronic engine that boasts high performance and eco-friendliness with 20% higher power output than conventional mechanical models and the highest fuel efficiency in its class.
Also, we displayed a prototype of a hybrid powertrain. The hybrid powertrain is a combination of a combustion engine with an electric motor and battery. An improved output that is equivalent to that of a 3-liter engine and not having a separate harmful substance reduction device makes the product even greener and more economical.
HD Hyundai Infracore couldn’t participate in MEE for a while due to COVID-19, but in the MEE 2024, we plan to showcase ultra-large engine concepts and eco-friendly/electrification solutions such as hydrogen engines and battery packs.


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BBC Dragon’s Den contestant Jordan Daykin has acquired Vehicle Preparation Services Group Ltd for £5 million as the entrepreneur reveals plans to capitalise on the number plate market.
The business, which operates from five industrial units with a presence in Bristol, Southampton, Swindon, Sheerness and Killingholme, employs over 200 people and achieved a turnover of £5.1m in 2017.
Founded in 2004 VPS was originally established to supply temporary labour to vehicle manufacturers but now has five main revenue streams, including an already-successful number plate manufacturing arm.
New VPS chief executive Jordan Daykin believes there is more to come from the business, however. He said: “There is such huge potential for Vehicle Preparation Services Group to build on its excellent industry reputation by branching into new markets and capitalise on the booming automotive industry.
“I’m extremely fortunate to have a strong management team in place, who have ensured the company has been profitable since day one.
“’m very proud to take over as CEO of the company my father started in 2004, and I’m committed to getting the very best out of our talented team and taking VPS Group from strength to strength in the coming years.”
Daykin, best known for his success on BBC’s Dragon’s Den in 2014 when he was just 18 – securing £80,000 investment from Deborah Meaden in his business GripIt Fixings – has been on the VPS Group board as a non-executive director for two years, offering strategic advice to the company founded by his father in 2004.
As well as aiming to sell one million number plates in 2018, Daykin has ambitions this year to grow VPS Group’s labour supply nationally and make use of its extensive staffing database to grow its recruitment offering.
In the last two years VPS Group has reinvested profits into driving growth, including a £1.5 million investment in a site which will manufacture up to 2.3million number plates per year, in what is a £300 million market producing over 20 million numberplates every year.
VPS Group already supplies 120,000 number plates to its current customer base, which includes Toyota, Isuzu Motors and GBA Group.
With one in 12 cars cloned in the UK each year, and over 100,000 number plates stolen, a recent change in legislation means it is now illegal to sell number plates online.
While this has heavily impacted the online retail market, VPS Group has identified a unique way of selling plates online which meets the DVLA’s requirements, and in doing so, has created bespoke software to run checks and crack down on stolen number plates and car cloning.
On Daykin’s acquisition of VPS, director Richard Davidson,said: “We’re very excited by the news of Jordan acquiring VPS Group.
“Having seen first-hand his success with GripIt, the whole team is looking forward to a busy 2018, implementing the new growth strategy and working alongside Jordan as our new CEO.”
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The 100% greek Ideales Group continues its constant rising, showing impressive financial results this year. Despite the unfavorable economic climate, all three companies of the Group (Piscines Ideales, Ideales Constructions and Ideales Resort) recorded remarkably improved financial results.
During the 10 months period of January-October 2016, Piscines Ideales’ turnover showed a +15,2% increase compared to the corresponding period last year. During the same period, Ideales Constructions’ turnover showed a +23% increase compared to the corresponding period in 2015. Furthermore, for the season 2016 Ideales Resort attained 21,7% higher turnover, compared to the last season.
Ideales is a distinguished company in the pool and spa industry both in Greece and worldwide. Thanks to its leading position in the greek market, Ideales has achieved exceptional collaborations exclusively with leading companies throughout the world, bringing to Greece products of high quality and technology, at unbeatable prices. It also has remarkable expertise and decades of experience, ingredients that guarantee every Customer that his money won’t go down the drain.
Ideales is the only company with dozens of awards and certifications for the quality of its working environment, the customer service it offers, the reliability of its products and services, etc., but is also the only one in the world with multiple distinctions regarding the ecological profile of its products.
We want each Customer who chooses our products, to be completely satisfied both by the product and by our distinguished Ideales Customer Care services, which is another ace up our sleeve and a benchmark for Ideales.
All the above show that – despite the economic crisis – the market acknowledges Ideales’ reliability and quality and reward it with its preference, further strengthening the company’s leading position.
The hard part is not only to reach the top, because it’s even harder to stay there… This is why we all in Ideales will continue to invest in innovation, as well as to excellent service, so as to be always able to offer to every one of you what’s best in the market.
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A contact lens recycling initiative has been launched which will allow users to dispose of their eyesight aids for free.
Previously lenses could only be recycled at a paid-for recycling partner due to the difficulty in recycling the silicone products.
But now pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson have revealed the UK’s first free nationwide recycling programme suitable for all contact lenses.
The Acuvue Contact Lens Recycle Programme will accept all brands of soft contact lenses, with the aim to significantly reduce the plastic waste created by the product.
Consumers will have the option of dropping their contact lenses off at public drop-off locations or having their recycling waste collected.
There are currently 3.7m contact lens users in the UK, 20 per cent of whom admit to wither flushing their used contact lenses down the toilet or ditching them in the sink, according to Press Association.
Johnson and Johnson Area Vice President, Sandra Rasche revealed that the move was motivated by customer demand.
She said: “Seventy-seven percent of British contact lens wearers said they would recycle their contact lenses if they could and we share their interest in reducing the amount of plastics in the environment.”
“As a business, we are committed to doing our part to combat climate change, protect our planet’s natural resources and reduce waste, and this new UK recycling programme represents the next step in our company’s sustainability commitment.”


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Though Anthony Bourdain championed the idea that reservations aren’t necessary, at most popular restaurants, you still need them. For five years, Resy has built out a platform helping diners secure seats at some of the most coveted restaurants around the globe, while helping restaurateurs manage their dining rooms through a series of back-end products that use data to reduce no-shows and allow restaurants to more efficiently run the books and engage customers. Today, Resy is used by some 4,000 restaurants in 154 U.S. cities and 10 countries, and says it seats 2.6 million diners a week. But it remains a minor player compared with restaurant-booking behemoth OpenTable, which is in more than 51,000 restaurants.
Now, Resy is poised to enter the dining big leagues: It’s being acquired by American Express. Neither would disclose the terms of the deal. To date, Resy has raised a total of $45 million, at a valuation of more than $53 million, from investors including Airbnb and Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group. The reservation platform says that, for now, business will continue as usual–the brands will remain separate and Resy employees will keep their current jobs. For Resy, this is an opportunity to be introduced to a broad new swath of customers, both American Express’s 114 million cardholders as well as the card company’s restaurant partners.
Ben Leventhal, Resy’s CEO and cofounder, says the acquisition is a natural fit. “The way that we think of hospitality is very closely aligned to the way AmEx does. We take inspiration from them,” he says. The two companies have worked together in the past: Resy, for instance, has helped American Express offer tables at exclusive restaurants to card members. The booking platform is also known for creating special events for its power users (think: a series of ticketed events with beloved chefs), which fits nicely with American Express’s focus on offering exclusive benefits and special access for cardholders, especially as it pushes back on upstart rewards cards, like Chase Sapphire Reserve.
Chris Cracchiolo, American Express’s SVP of global loyalty and benefits, is also focused on what Resy can offer merchants. “What Resy brings is world-class software [to help restaurants] better power and operate their businesses,” he says. According to Cracchiolo, American Express won’t require merchants to use Resy’s technology. The acquisition, however, could help increase the card company’s merchant portfolio, given Resy’s rising brand cachet.
Resy is certainly not alone in the reservations technology space. But over the past few years it has carved a special space for itself, with its sleek design and focus on building out its technology offerings. This has helped it win over some of the most popular new restaurants and boost its revenue 200% year-over-year, according to Resy.
Its biggest competitor, OpenTable, meanwhile, has begun leveraging the other brands associated with parent company Booking Holdings to keep Resy at bay. For example, OpenTable recently launched a loyalty program in conjunction with sister website Kayak. Resy has announced similar cross-brand integrations; it already has an API implementation with Airbnb, which led its last round of funding.
Both American Express and Resy maintain that the road ahead will remain relatively the same.”You can expect us to focus on the things we’ve been shown to care about,” says Leventhal. That includes partnerships with restaurants, new experiences for customers, and updates to its platforms to make the back end of dining more seamless.
“Our plan is to continue to have Resy be open and to the public so anyone can use it to book restaurants,” Cracchiolo says. “Over time, we will look to bring some of those capabilities into the AmEx ecosystem.” But he insists the service will operate as a separate property, pointing to American Express’s recent acquisition of LoungeBuddy–an airport lounge booking service, which remains an independent entity. Both acquisitions are signs of the credit card company’s ambitions to offer premium services–such as dining, traveling, accommodations, and more–to cardholders and beyond.


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The Winston-Salem Symphony flash-mobbed the Belk department store in December 2011 at Hanes Mall as a promotion for their upcoming performances of Handel's Messiah.
This is so wonderful that we're happy to share it again this year!
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This year's performances are
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So the star has founded two companies to help even the balance: Pacific Standard, a production company, and Hello Sunshine, a multimedia company.
"I started a production company five years ago to create more roles for women onscreen and behind the scenes," Witherspoon says. "Today I have something like 23 projects in the works driven by great female characters of different ages and races. There is a film about an astronaut, a film about the entrepreneur who invented Barbie, and a film about the young, brave American girls who were the first women to serve alongside Special Ops in 2010 in Afghanistan."
Pacific Standard has seen success adapting the books "Gone Girl" and "Wild" into hit movies, which together brought in $422 million, according to Forbes. Hello Sunshine launched in 2016, and is focused on women consuming digital content.
"We're thinking about reaching women where they live, on their laptops or on their mobile phones," she explains to Forbes.
But, neither venture came without hard work.
"I self-funded my production company for years," Witherspoon says in Glamour. "Nobody hands me anything. I'll wake up earlier; I'll stay up later. I will put my money where my mouth is. I have to read faster, and I respond quicker than other producers. I have to call and call and call executives until they say yes to my projects."
Outside of media, Witherspoon is also the founder of a clothing and lifestyle brand, Draper James, which received a $10 million investment round in 2015 led by Forerunner Ventures, founded by a woman, Kirsten Green, and known for its investments in retail players like Dollar Shave Club, Birchbox, Glossier and Warby Parker.
In any industry, Witherspoon emphasizes drive and ambition for women.
"All we can do to create change is work hard," Witherspoon says in Glamour. "That's my advice: Just do what you do well. If you're a producer, you've got to produce. If you're a writer, you've got to write. If you're in corporate America, keep working hard to bust through the glass ceiling."
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Customer service is the lifeblood of any business. A good customer service is not only about sustaining existing customers but also to attract new base. This has actually heralded a new era of proactive customer service through research, innovation and analysing trend that is quickly becoming the differentiator of brand image. This phenomenon influences smaller firms much more than the traditional big players.
A SDL case study on the Belgian telecom company Belgamcom proves how effectively businesses are using radical measures to create unique brand image.
The emergence of Social media as a communications channel
The 2012 Life on Demand Study by Performics reveals that more and more consumers- more aptly called participants- are constantly connecting through social media.
“These new Participants are comfortable increasingly replacing real-time communications with social media interactions,” said Daina Middleton, Global CEO of Performics. “In this new social normal – one where people prefer online communication and maintain high expectations about two-way relationships – brands must utilize social channels to build exceptional, interactive digital experiences.”
Organisations are realising that they no longer can ignore social media as a channel that can revolutionise consumer and client relationship. However, there are few companies that have grasped just how fundamentally social media will transform business over the next few years.
The impact is across sector. Take the tourism industry – information on social media sites plays an important role as a study (Olery Infographics about The Naked Truth about Hotel Reviews) has found that 81% of travellers find user reviews important, while 49% of travellers won’t book a property without reviews.
Step out Reactive Service, Step in Proactive Service
It is not uncommon to find companies using social media platforms to try to communicate more effectively with their customers, answer queries, provide advice, and deal with customer complaints in real time. This is the direct communication aspect of using social media. There are other companies who are using the same social media platforms to gather and analyse information related to customer’s likes, dislikes and perceptions about the product or brand. They are also analysing how their competition is performing on social media websites. It is likely that usage for these purposes may turn out to work more effectively than trying to simply offer customer service through social media channels.
Engineering the right customer service through social media engagement
It is easy to understand the benefits of harnessing the social media engagement to build a brand image. However, it could backfire instantly. A Conversocial report has revealed that 55 per cent were disappointed by big brands’ communication on social media.
So, it also important for brands, more so for smaller brands to use these platforms in such a way that it wins them customers’ confidence as well as maintain a level of transparency.
Brands such as Subway have managed to take social customer service to the next level through their tweets. According to a survey, Subway sandwich franchise outperformed its dining industry peers in communicating with customers over social media platforms.
Head of Subway’s social media team Paul Bamundo, commented. “With nearly 15 million friends on our Facebook page and over 555,555 followers on Twitter, we spend a tremendous amount of time not only sharing news about special promotions at Subway, but also listening, responding and amplifying customers’ stories or their concerns to make sure they know they are being heard.”
Small businesses are faced with the challenge of prioritizing available resources towards activities that are guaranteed to deliver the most impact. The need to provide outstanding customer service with the help of social media is felt by an increasing number of small businesses.
Take for instance, the Hamburger chain Smashburger, which grew from three Denver locations in 2007 to 150 outposts nationwide. Apart from the Angus-beef burgers and unique toppings, its secret sauce is believed to be social-media outreach. Here’s how. Smashburger offers coupons and trivia contests for its Facebook followers (who are now over 67,000). The chain also replies to questions and complaints on its social networking platforms including Twitter and Facebook and reaches out to bloggers who are likely to write about Smashburger restaurants. Businesses can use this example and use social media to monitor a brand and protect its reputation online.
All of these points to the simple fact that brands who are not actively engaging with their customers through social media do so at their peril. Today’s net savvy consumers have their own expectations and will spend more when they get good service but the moment it drops they change preference at the drop of a button.
The crux of the social media engagement for small businesses is to create a niche within peers while staying afloat on the same playing field.
Having a “presence” in social media is worthless unless you “use” social media activities in an aligned manner with clear goals.
Customer relationship management is now the mainstay in small businesses too. They are recognizing the fact that monitoring customer feedback, responding to complaints and providing customer support using social media is incredibly valuable. Take for instance the fashion retailer ‘ASOS Here to Help,’ Twitter account, which was set up as an entirely separate entity from the ASOS’ “marketing” Twitter account.
Organizations across the world are either interested in or already using social media channels for large-scale customer service issues such as explaining outages, highlighting policy changes or even apologizing for hiccups in sales and service support. This is a great start and companies should take the initiative to use this medium on a proactive basis. It has been proven that well-informed, researched responses in a timely and personal tone address the customers like they would want to be addresses, like a real person not another number in the service queue.
Proactive Customer Service – Differentiated Customer Experience
The science of customer relationships is pretty simple – the value you get (in terms of customer loyalty and brand recognition) is directly proportionate to the value you give. To achieve and maintain this harmony, today’s companies must seek to use social media channels to help establish a dialogue with customers that lets them know that the company is aware of their information needs also respects the mode of communication. It is important to develop and implement a listening strategy across all social media channels to identify and resolve issues before they spin out of control. The goal of proactive customer service is to serve customers with useful information when they need it the most and social media usage addresses that effectively. At blueocean, the social intelligence part of our proactive customer service solution will gradually transition users to a self-service model & build newer channels of brand access.
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Grocery retailers and food distributors are finally catching up with the rest of the food industry in the use of automation in their warehouses.
Despite the hefty price tags of the solutions, these companies are employing a variety of automated and semi-automated storage retrieval systems (AS/RS)—including horizontal and vertical carousels, stacker cranes, conveying and sortation systems and automated guided vehicles—throughout their facilities.
In recent years, a number of grocers and distributors such as The Kroger Co., C&S Wholesale Grocers, Sobey’s, HEB and Stop ‘n Shop have gone high-tech in their warehouses—and experts expect that trend to continue. Faced with the increasing complexity of receiving, storing, picking and shipping product, many are looking for new ways to improve logistics performance levels at a lower cost, according to Ken Ruehrdanz, warehousing and distribution market manager for Dematic Corp., Grand Rapids, MI, which leads them to automation.
“The drivers in food distribution include SKU proliferation, servicing multi-format retailing, building mixed case pallets, space utilization, transportation costs, inventory and order accuracy and labor costs, as well as health and safety issues for employees,” says Ruehrdanz.
According to the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA), sales of automation equipment reached a record low last year. However, because the recession did not hit the food industry as hard as it did others, food companies did not put the brakes on automation investments. Vendors report seeing a growing number of new projects, retrofits and system upgrades for their food as well as beverage customers.
The good news for grocery distributors is that a number of automation solutions providers are targeting the industry. “This is where the real arms race is in terms of automation for material handling—it’s all focused on food and beverage right now,” says Tom Coyne, president and CEO of System Logistics Corp., Lewiston, ME. “And in the grocery space, there have been a couple of companies that have been willing to make the long term investment and take the risk.”
“There’s been a huge increase in the interest in automation across the board in the industry—from the food and beverage manufacturers and distributors to the retailers,” agrees Paul Moore, director of MS systems sales of Mason, OH-based Intelligrated Inc. “One of the big drivers is the consolidation of the industry—it’s creating scale. In grocery, you’ve got retail giants such as Walmart and Target, in beverage you’ve got Anheuser-Busch and we’re seeing a lot of acquisitions in the snack food arena. The larger these companies get, the more automation makes sense for them. Their size helps them get a good return on investment on these types of solutions.”
Another big driver is the need for store friendly deliveries, according to Dematic’s Ruehrdanz.
“The traditional method was to replenish the store once or twice a week, with the inventories being stored in the backroom of the store. As consumers purchased items, the stores would replenish the items from the backroom and invariably stock outs would occur,” says Ruehrdanz. “As companies strive to reduce stock-outs within stores, there is a focus on smaller, more frequent replenishments from the DC to the store. With this strategy, rather than replenish the backroom, the received shipment is replenished directly to the store shelf.”
Advances in automated case picking is also driving the trend, say the experts. “Retailers are looking for systems that can automatically pick cases and palletize cases in aisle sequence at the distribution center for store friendly delivery, allowing quick replenishment on the shelf,” says Sean O’Farrell, business development manager for Witron, Arlington Heights, IL. “Besides the obvious savings within the warehouse, many of our retail customers point out that automation is also saving labor in their stores. This is a direct result of our ability to automatically build store-friendly and aisle-ready mixed SKU pallets within the warehouse.”


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Wondering why Sega isn’t taking advantage of most people being at home with a ton of merchandise sales? It’s almost certainly because, by their own admission, several products already sold can’t get to buyers right now.
The near complete shutdown of non-essential businesses worldwide in an effort to stop the spread of novel coronavirus–mandated in many areas–means some warehouses can’t operate on-site, unless they ship food or medical equipment. In the United States, Sega’s shop has alerted to the change in a two sentence advisory on their shipping page, citing the state of California’s executive order from Governor Gavin Newsom to cease operation of all on-site business that does not support “critical infrastructure” to the state. The advisory reads in part:
Please note that some orders placed on or after 3/21/20 will ship within one week after California lifts its business suspension order, and businesses are permitted to resume normal operations.
Several, but not all items on the shop are impacted, including Sega’s recently launched monthly pin club, several pieces of Sonic movie merchandise, the Sonic pizza cutter, the “Barrel of Doom” mug, Sega Genesis branded cartridge soap, the Sonic Mania Plus glow-in-the-dark poster, and more. So far, most apparel on the shop does not appear to be impacted.
The shutdown is complete on the European side of the Sega shop, where the decision was made Monday afternoon, just ahead of the UK government’s directive to its citizens to stay at home, and halt all non-essential business. There, no items at all are being shipped:
We have today made a very significant decision to close our warehouse facilities, meaning we will no longer be in a position to despatch any orders made after 2pm on the 23rd March.
The decision was made with you, our customers, in mind. We want to be part of the solution, and not part of the problem. If we remained open, we would be putting our warehouse staff, our families, our couriers and our customers at risk. This is wholly unacceptable and not an option for us.
As soon as the government announced that all non-essential activity in the UK should cease, we made the decision to close our doors.
Unfortunately, this does mean that some of you have place and paid for an order which will not be despatched for at least 3 weeks. We will, of course, cancel and refund all of these orders upon request.
Our website will remain open for orders but we can not offer any indication as to when they will be despatched, other than to say it will be in at least 3 weeks time.
Though the EU shop suggests a three week timetable for getting back to business, no one can be sure when business will return to normal. Cases continue to rise across the United States and in pockets around the world. In the U.S., the Trump administration is expected to release updated guidelines with the goal of getting more Americans back to work, but the plan has been met with opposition by several state governors. Some of those governors have amended their executive orders to allow more businesses to stay open amid the evolving situation.
The lack of non-essential businesses working has severely impacted the world economy. In the United States alone, more than 3 million people filed for unemployment last week. It was the largest jump in the country’s history.
Both Sega of America and Sega of Europe have instituted work-from-home policies in the wake of government regulations restricting the on-site operation of non-essential business, joining much of the rest of the gaming industry.


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It’s not often that we’ll praise a game developer for how they’ve gone about announcing a video game, but gosh darn it, let’s give some quick props to Remedy for their decision to announce Alan Wake Remastered via The Sudden Stop. If there’s ever been a more perfect way to acknowledge the involvement and love that a community has invested in not just a franchise, but also a developer, I’ve yet to see it.
Sam Lake, writer and creative director at Remedy, penned an open letter detailing the announcement of the remaster, which was published on The Sudden Stop on September 7th. The letter details parts of the creative process which went into developing Alan Wake, along with Remedy’s excitement that the game will be launching on PlayStation for the first time, but he also takes time to thank both the community and Rachel Perkins, the one who founded The Sudden Stop in the first place.
“Alan Wake came out over 11 years ago, and through that time, you have told us again and again how much you love the game, the story, the characters, and the lore. And that matters a lot to us. We love this game as well. I love this game. The remaster is coming because of your support for Alan Wake through the years.”
“That is why we felt it was fitting to make this announcement here, at The Sudden Stop, which has been an integral part of the Remedy community since back in 2012, when it started out as an Alan Wake fansite. The Remedy community wouldn’t be what it is today without The Sudden Stop, and we wanted to show our gratitude by telling you about Alan Wake Remastered right here. So thank you, Rachel, and everyone else, for supporting Remedy and our games through all these years.”
Sam Lake’s words aren’t exactly wrong here. Since Alan Wake: American Nightmare in 2012, which was–well, let’s not start some controversy here, the series has mostly dropped off the face of the Earth. Fans have been clamouring for some additional news or even a sequel, and Remedy have been keen to play with fan expectations regarding the Alan Wake series.
Quantum Break, the ambitious yet oft-forgotten Xbox exclusive that kinda deserved better, contained quite a few neat little easter eggs that referenced Alan Wake, which many believed would lead to a new game in the series. Remedy’s more recent release, Control, also featured a DLC campaign, AWE, which tied both Control and Alan Wake into the same universe. Fans naturally lapped it up, but they wanted more and now, we’re finally getting it.
Putting the announcement in the hands of a site like The Sudden Stop feels like a tacit acknowledgement from Remedy of that fervent fan reaction, while also thanking the little guy for supporting them for over a decade. It’s a nice gesture to some hard workers who absolutely deserve it, while potentially signalling that the future of Alan Wake is looking pretty bright indeed.
Alright, maybe I’m speculating because I’m a little too excited about Alan Wake coming back.
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Yearn Finance, & Hundred Finance exploit. Canon, Adidas, and Mastercard web3 initiatives.
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Nomad Bridge was drained of nearly $190M. Magic Eden integrates Ethereum NFTs on their platform.
Cryptocurrency hacks are all too common, with a seemingly regular series of multi-million dollar exploits shaking investor confidence in cryptocurrency markets and prompting many investors to become increasingly wary of where they store their assets. While cryptocurrency exchanges were once the primary target, hackers appear to have found a new target in blockchain bridges.
Cross-chain bridges continue to be a vulnerability in DeFi and an attractive target for exploiters. Nomad Bridge, the cross-chain interoperability protocol was targeted by hackers, who drained $190 million in liquidity over two and a half hours of attack. Following a regular upgrade in June, the bridge's Replica contract was initialized with a fatal security issue that led to the event. In this instance, the trusted root was set to the 0x00 address, and the old root was invalidated when the trusted root was changed, meaning that all messages were read as valid by default. After a failed initial attempt, the original attacker’s exploit transaction, which was copied by subsequent attackers, was able to call the process function directly, without first assessing its validity. As soon as the fatal blow was struck, the news spread and numerous individuals began to fight over the leftovers. In fact, a shrewder exploiter could have devised a plan to drain the entire bridge for themselves.
Cryptocurrency exchange ZB Exchange was another victim of a hack that appears to have drained approximately $5 million worth of tokens from the company's hot wallet. According to many sources, hackers may be responsible for transferring 21 different types of tokens off of the exchange, including Tether, Polygon, Tesra, and Shiba Inu. Transaction records show that the tokens were subsequently sold on several decentralized exchanges for Ether. The suspected hack followed ZB.com announcing the suspension of deposits and withdrawals in response to the sudden failure of some core applications, with the exchange warning users not to deposit any digital currency until a possible recovery.
A multimillion-dollar attack took place on the Solana public chain as an increasing number of terrified users realized their wallets had been emptied. The hacker successfully drained nearly $6 million from over 8000 user wallets during a smash and grab raid. The transaction characteristics demonstrate that the attacker signed the account transfer without utilizing the attack contract, and the initial conclusion was that the private key was compromised, suggesting a potential software supply chain issue. It is suggested that users protect the privacy of their private keys and move their hot wallet tokens to a somewhat secure location, such as a hardware wallet.
Magic Eden, a community-focused NFT marketplace, has just announced that it will be integrating Ethereum NFTs. This is a significant step forward in the platform's efforts to expand its presence across all web3 communities. The platform expects to increase its total traded volume in the coming year by going multi-chain, following its $2 billion in traded volume for Solana NFTs since its launch in September 2021. It also enables NFT creators to launch seamlessly across multiple chains, benefiting from increased liquidity and new audiences. Magic Eden List, which includes a whitelist and audience targeting tool, Launchpad with ETH and SOL compatibility, and a Drop Calendar are among the new Magic Eden - Ethereum Blockchain features. In addition, the platform is running private beta tests in preparation for the launch of a cross-currency trading product. Magic Eden's ETH-compatible Launchpad includes a seamless minting setup, marketing support, and custom launch build-outs.
Pearson, the educational textbooks publisher, has announced plans to convert its textbooks into NFTs. After finishing their studies, students rarely need their textbooks. As a result, dropping textbook NFTs that can be sold on the secondary market provides Pearson with an excellent opportunity to profit from second-hand sales. This new strategy will help to solidify Pearson's digital strategy after the launch of its Pearson+ subscription application in 2021. Although selling books as NFTs is not a new idea, it is safe to say that book NFTs have not taken off in the same way that music or art NFTs have. This is because many publishers remain wary of NFTs, particularly because their target audience values printed books.
Popular metaverse platform Decentraland has announced plans to launch the world's first metaverse ATM on August 8 at the Airdrop Tower. The launch event will be hosted by the platform's developers. The metaverse ATM developed in collaboration with the Transak payment gateway and the Metaverse Architects studio will make it easy for users to purchase cryptocurrency. The Transak metaverse ATM by Decentraland is the first fiat-to-cryptocurrency ATM in the world. The goal of the initiative is to facilitate the purchase of MANA and other cryptocurrencies. Developers noted that this adoption is intended to improve the user experience, and that the team is constantly developing the tools and technology required to make payments in Decentraland effortless.
Tech companies are constantly innovating and experimenting in order to provide users with an interactive and ultra-realistic metaverse experience. The metaverse is not separate from people's actual lives; rather, it is an extension that complements our real world. KuCoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has recently announced its entry into Ertha's metaverse, a project that aims to simulate a real-world environment by simulating the actions that people must perform to live a life. Upon logging into Ertha's early beta, players will be greeted by a state-of-the-art and fully functional KuCoin Office, situated on the initial playable ERTHA NFT Land plot.
Ease, formerly ArmorFi, designed their tokenomics with a sustainable architecture based on growing vote tokens (gvTokens). Through their $EASE token deposits, a user may receive an equivalent $gvEASE token, which can be used for voting on governance proposals or staking to a vault to lower the maximum fees for a single hack.
Bridge Mutual has partnered with Lido Finance, a multi-chain liquid staking solution for Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot, Polygon & Kusama. The collaboration will enable users to purchase coverage for Lido's stETH and underwrite insurance for an attractive yield.


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Last year the Santa Pub Crawl brought more than 1,500 toys and more than $4,500 to benefit The Salvation Army. This year it will be held Saturday at various locations.
This event is an opportunity for Chattanooga-area adults to mingle and celebrate the holidays while simultaneously contributing to a great cause, said officials. The event benefits the Salvation Army Angel Tree. All participants should bring a toy (toys only, brand new, unwrapped) to donate to a child for Christmas and dress festively.
Sponsors include Sweetwater Brewing, Hutton & Smith, Pints & Pedals, I-HEART Radio: KISSFM 103.7, wUSy 101 and ROCK105.
Here is the schedule for 2017:
3-6 p.m. Registration and Kick-off
Clydes & Feed
Honest Pint & Jack's Burger Bar
Chattanooga Billiard Club
Hair of the Dog and Sing It or Wing It
Regan's Place (to be confirmed)
Busses will run from the Southside to Downtown from 6-8 p.m. There will be raffles and drink and food specials at all locations during their scheduled times.
Same as years past, there will be Salvation Army Angel Tree receptacles at each stop on the crawl, so bring toys to give to children in need.
For more information visit the Facebook page or the Salvation Army website.


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More than half the men in a study by DoubleClick Performics plan to shop online for Valentine's Day, reports Internet Retailer.
Across both genders, 47 percent of respondents said they would go online for Valentine's Day shopping. Among men, the percentage is 57 percent, versus 39 percent of women.
But not everyone makes the purchase online. 32 percent of those using the internet are shopping for ideas. 12 percent are seeking a store's phone number and address.
Convenience was the chief reason to crawl the web for Valentine's Day gifts, cited by 48 percent of online users. 19 percent were not sure why they did so.
Some websites hope to cash in on the impulse. Adrants reported a liaison between bouquet vendor FTD.com and Download.com, whereby users that order flowers can get downloadable software for free.


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Guests stroll previous a Boeing board in the course of the Farnborough Airshow, in Farnborough, on July 18, 2022.
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Try the businesses making headlines in noon buying and selling.
Boeing — The aerospace firm was down 5% after it reached a $200 million settlement on costs of deceptive traders following two of its jetliners being concerned in lethal crashes.
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FedEx — Shares had been down about 3.4%, hitting a brand new 52-week low. The supply firm introduced plans to extend charges between 6.9% and seven.9%.
Costco — The wholesaler, which stated it could not elevate membership costs this week, noticed shares drop 4.3%. Costco launched earnings that beat expectations and confirmed year-over-year positive factors, but in addition stated it was experiencing greater labor and freight prices.
CalAmp — The software program firm plummeted 16.8% regardless of an earlier rally. CalAmp reported smaller losses than anticipated in its second-quarter earnings, whereas additionally noting record-setting income inside subscription and software program classes.
Ally Monetary — Shares of the monetary companies firm dropped 2.7% after Wells Fargo downgraded the inventory to equal weight from chubby. The Wall Avenue agency stated it will likely be tough for Ally to outperform as used car worth continues to say no and because the client works by means of the headwind of inflation.
Qualcomm — Shares declined 2% regardless of JPMorgan saying reiterating the inventory as chubby because of the wi-fi firm’s automotive alternatives.
fuboTV — Shares jumped 7.9% after Wedbush upgraded the streaming service to outperform from impartial, saying fuboTV is at “compelling entry level” for traders.
Domino’s Pizza — Domino’s Pizza superior 3.1% after BMO upgraded the inventory to outperform, forecasting a rebound within the fast-food chain on the again of robust demand.
Coinbase – Shares of Coinbase fell 1.7% after JPMorgan lowered its worth goal and reiterated the inventory as impartial, citing issues about weak exercise ranges within the crypto sell-off. Though the cryptocurrency alternate has been diversifying its companies and income streams, that enterprise nonetheless accounts for almost all of its income, and buying and selling exercise tends to stall when costs are low. Crypto property offered off with the remainder of threat property Friday.
Superior Micro Gadgets — Shares hit a brand new 52-week low for the semiconductor firm, falling 2.2%. The drop comes regardless of Morgan Stanley reiterating the inventory amid what it sees as a correction of broad-based semis happening.
Marathon — Shares of the oil titan fell 11%, defying a constructive report from Evercore ISI that considered the corporate as having robust free money stream.
— CNBC’s Yun Li, Tanaya Macheel and Sarah Min contributed reporting


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Several hoteliers have confirmed the negative impact of the bomb blast at the Coptic cathedral on the bookings expected during the coming holiday period.
Speaking to Al-Borsa newspapers, Tawfiq Mokhtar, deputy general manager and head of sales at the Nile Ritz Carlton, expected negative effecst on the bookings due to the blast; however, no reservations have yet been canceled.
The hotel occupancy rate reached 80 percent, for Arabs and foreigners; although the rate for Arabs is relatively low, as there are no vacations in Arab countries during this period of the year.
Walid Yehia, head of the sales department at Baron Palace hotel, said the current hotel occupancy rate in the Cairo hotel is around 80 percent for Egyptians and Arabs, but does not exceed 45 percent at the Sahl Hasheesh hotel, which is mainly accommodated by foreigners.
He told Al-Borsa that none of the clients had canceled their booking, but he is expecting some reservations to be canceled over the coming few days.
Hesham Ali, head of South Sinai Investors Association, expects the blast to affect Egypt as a tourist destination. He stressed the fact that, while terrorism can affect any country in the world, it may not have the same effect as in Egypt, due to the negative media coverage.
Tharwat al-Agamy, former chief of the Egyptian Travel Agencies Association in Luxor and Aswan, said the current occupancy in Luxor and Aswan does not exceed 20 percent. No reservations there have been canceled yet.
He urged the security authorities in Egypt to tighten their grip and beef up security measures to avoid similar accidents which send a bad image of Egypt and intimidate tourists who want to visit.
In related news, the owners of ten tourism agencies gathered in Luxor to discuss how to attract South Korean tourists back to Egypt, after the declined witnessed since the Korean tourist bus blast of Taba, in 2014.


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SoftBank issued a brief statement Thursday in the name of the CEO of its investment arm, Rajeev Misra. In its entirety it read:
“We are very pleased to have successfully closed the Uber investment and appreciate the support and professionalism of the Board, management team and shareholders who made this transaction possible. Uber has a very bright future under its new leadership. It is now part of a wider SoftBank network ranging from Sprint to WeWork. I look forward to SoftBank helping Uber become an even bigger global success.”
Some facts, per Bloomberg, (with some of my comments):
—The investment totaled $9.3 billion, partly directly into Uber at a valuation of about $70 billion, partly to buy out other investors at a significant discount. The blended valuation is $54 billion. (A come down but still giant.)
—Two SoftBank representatives, Misra and Sprint (S) CEO Marcelo Claure, will join the board. But there are four additional vacancies to what will be a 17-member body. (Awkward, from a governance perspective.)
—The investment ends preferred voting rights held by early investors, including longtime CEO Travis Kalanick. (A sign Uber might end its soap-opera period.)
The most interesting parts of SoftBank’s statement are what it didn’t say. It praised the “professionalism” of the board, management team and investors in closing the deal—an all but explicit knock on the lack of professionalism by the board, management team, and investors (read: Benchmark Capital) during much of 2017. It also mentioned an office space and a phone company in its “SoftBank network” but not Uber competitors Didi and Grab, the strange bedfellows SoftBank has now made for Uber.
Maybe it’s premature to say Uber might be ending its soap-opera period.
I apologize for saying yesterday that Microsoft (MSFT) had “won” its antitrust suit with the Justice Department. True, the feds didn’t break up Microsoft, the way they did AT&T. It’s also true that Microsoft’s enemies thought the consent decree it signed was too weak. But to say Microsoft emerged victorious for having settled with Justice wasn’t altogether right. Thank you to Pallavi Guniganti for pointing this out to me on Twitter.
For the 11th consecutive year Apple (AAPL) ranks No. 1 on Fortune’s list of World’s Most Admired Companies. The full list, published today, is here.


text: The major virtual currencies on Monday are moderately going up on the reports that the world's largest digital trading platform Binance has launched its blockchain platform Binance Chain. On it, startups will be able to issue their own digital currencies, as well as conduct ICO. Binance Chain is a public blockchain network that will support BNB tokens. The exchange will soon integrate its decentralized trading platform into the Binance Chain. Meanwhile, Binance will allow projects to release new tokens within the ecosystem, which actually means being able to conduct ICOs, attracting BNB tokens.


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Australia's Chickpea Exports Post Improved Result
PANAMA - Feb 6/19 - SNS -- Australia's export shipments of chickpeas during December were up significantly, rising compared to the previous month, according to data from Australia Bureau of Statistics.
Exports during the month reached 37,977 metric tons (MT), up from 25,510 MT the previous month. This lifted movement so far during the marketing year to 63,487, down 78% last year.
Bangladesh was the number one consumer for the month, receiving 16,820 MT. Pakistan was the second most important destination receiving 5,681 MT, followed by Nepal at 3,873 MT.


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Cambridge University (2009) Chinese Premier’s e-book gift to University Library, Press release, Feb 23
Cambridge University Library is now home to one of the world’s largest collections of Chinese monographs – following the gift of 200,000 electronic books by the country’s Premier, Wen Jiabao, Premier of the People’s Republic of China.
The 200,000 titles in the donation have been selected to complement the Library’s existing Chinese holdings, and comprise books published since 1992 in the humanities, including classical and modern Chinese language and literature, history, geography, politics, economics, law, philosophy, religion, social sciences, military affairs, culture, education and art.
China’s provision of electronic publications is one of the most comprehensive in the world. The digital publishing and e-book technology used in the digital library platform presented to Cambridge were developed by Founder Apabi Technology Ltd of Peking University.
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AIRBUS PROJECT RACER
Airbus is aiming to achieve the best in speed, cost-efficiency, sustainability and mission performance with its in-development, high-speed helicopter — Project Racer. It is set to fly the skies in 2020.
DYNASTY DIAMOND COLLECTION AUCTION
Five exquisitely fine and polished diamonds, totaling in 76.22 carats, are set to be sold at an online auction this November by Russian mining company Alrosa.
KELLY WEARSTLER'S DICHOTOMY TABLE
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CHALLENGING, TACTICAL AND ICONIC – THE ANNUAL ROLEX MIDDLE SEA RACE IN MALTA
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STEPHEN WEBSTER'S WHITE KITES COLLECTION
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ASTON MARTIN ANNOUNCES PRODUCTION OF THEIR FIRST ELECTRIC CAR
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